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Posted Aug 24, 2017 at 5:34 PM
Updated Aug 24, 2017 at 5:45 PM
We live in a safe community,” Beach Police Chief Drew Whitman said in an interview with The News Herald. “There’s not a place in this city I wouldn’t walk down the street alone …
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Floats keep the cages suspended at the top, but beneath the water’s surface, they hold thousands of growing oysters. Floating in the water column, they largely are protected from predators.
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Put two oysters on a plate, and J. Michael Stewart can tell you which …
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PANAMA CITY — It’s official. Cracker Barrel has filed for a business application to open a location in Panama City.
The highly anticipated restaurant plans to set up shop at 520 E. 23rd St., inside the new Bay City Point development going up …
View More“Our city has grown to a point where we can no longer allow our streets to be a recreational playground,” Councilman John Reichard said. “There was a time when we could. We didn’t have the traffic. We didn’t have the visitation, and now we do.”
View MoreNew building boom on the Beach
“One reason I think that everyone is coming out here is it is just a nice place to live, the county part and the city, the whole island,” Panama City Beach Mayor Mike Thomas said. “I don’t think you can drive through a …
View MoreEastern Shipbuilding launched its newly built ship, the M/V Magdalen, Friday afternoon at Eastern’s Allanton Shipyard. The 356-foot-long dredging ship was built for Weeks Marine, which currently has two other dredging boats working on the beach renourishment project in Panama City Beach. The Magdalen, however, is not destined for …
TripAdvisor released a lineup of the top beaches in the country giving Panama City Beach the number five spot on the list.
"We're known as the world's most beautiful beaches for a reason," said Dan Rowe, Executive Director for the Bay County Tourist Development Council.
Beaches …
View MorePANAMA CITY BEACH — Sports is big business in Panama City Beach — and growing.
Representatives from local businesses and sports event holders got an update on the industry during a workshop Wednesday sponsored by the Bay County Tourist Development Council.
The workshop, in its ninth year, was created as …
View MorePANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP)-- The man police say stabbed and killed Alisa Kinsaul in her homeMonday night, has a past that includes jail time on charges of false imprisonment and burglary.
The charges date back to February 20, 2001. John Bradley Davidson was arrested in Volusia County on …
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